Word: yesteryears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where are the beards of yesteryear-the "Spade," the "Tile," the "Uncle Sam," the "Van Dyke," the "Piccadilly Weeper," the "Cathedral?" Where is the like of Huguenot Admiral de Coligny's beard, which served as a pincushion for the admiral's toothpicks? Where is the beaver of iyth Century Bishop Camus of Bellai-a growth so formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped...
Well you can't fool the CRIMSON either. We are going to dispel a myth which is more president than the myth of Santa Claus, a myth perhaps nourished and protected by some misguided CRIMSON editors of some dismal yesteryear. But as we said you can't fool us, there is no such thing as "the Radcliffe Girl...
Peggy Wood, who must have delighted theatergoers of yesteryear in "Naughty Marietta" and "Bittersweet," is still very delightful to watch, both for her graceful beauty and her thorough characterization of the well-meaning, suspicious mother-in-law who almost wreeks her daughter's marriage. As her sister-in-law and complete opposite, June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most...
...Snows of Yesteryear. Looking at the latest arrivals is often like looking at yesterday's skirts and hats-they appear more "dated" than the ancient wimple or the crinoline. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes is still fresh as a daisy after 300 years, but who now hums Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, or remembers the purple passages of Norman ("This is It, kid") Corwin...
...Britannia's notions of the balance of power kept the world in a rough & ready sort of peace. That order came to an end with the 20th Century's world wars, colonial rebellions, and (above all) the rise of U.S. power. Gone, suddenly, were the balances of yesteryear...